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WOOD COUNTY \u2013 Our news partner KETK reports that an East Texas man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting his adopted children.<\/p>\nWOOD COUNTY \u2013 Our news partner KETK reports that an East Texas man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting his adopted children.<\/p>\n
In 2018, the Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office began investigating Kevin Ray Larsson after one of his adopted children reported he had been sexually abusing them. According to officials, the child reported that Larsson had improper relations with her when she was 5-years-old.<\/p>\n
As the investigation continued into 2023, at least six of Larsson\u2019s adopted children claimed that he had sexually assaulted them, according to a press release from the Wood County District Attorney\u2019s Office. Larsson later admitted to having inappropriate sexual conduct with one of the children.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Larsson pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault, indecency with a child and indecency with a child sexual contact committed against his adopted children, the press release stated.<\/p>\n
Following his guilty plea Larsson was sentenced to 30 years in state prison and ordered to pay $2,800 in fines. A lifetime protective order was also granted for all of Larsson\u2019s nine adopted children, he is prohibited from having any contact with them and he\u2019ll have to register as a sex offender, according to the press release.<\/p>\n
Wood County Criminal District Attorney Angela Albers spoke about the tragedy of the case and the lasting impact it will have on the victims.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case is a horrible tragedy for these children. They were adopted by this man and he was supposed to care for, provide for, and nurture them\u2014instead, he turned into a monster and committed heinous actions against them that they are still suffering the effects of to this day. My office had numerous conversations with the victims and the victims\u2019 mother and discussed the probability of the children being retraumatized by the effects of having to testify against the Defendant in a jury trial.<\/p>\n
After those discussions, the victims agreed to the terms of this plea bargain and made it clear they wanted to put this monster behind them and move on with their lives. This defendant committed vile acts against young children, and he is going to spend the next few decades of his life behind bars for it.<\/p>\n
I hope that this allows the victims to move forward with their lives and heal from this tragedy. As they told the defendant in court, they are not his victims\u2014they are survivors. My office will continue to protect children just like them in Wood County and hold the people that harm them accountable to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d said Albers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WOOD COUNTY \u2013 Our news partner KETK reports that an East Texas man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting his adopted children. In 2018, the Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office began investigating Kevin Ray Larsson after one of his adopted children reported he had been sexually abusing them. … Continue reading Man sentenced to 30 years for sexually assaulting six adopted children<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1415445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/WOOD-COUNTY-e1745266002632-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 04:02:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/WOOD-COUNTY-e1745266002632-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1415439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415444,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415439\/revisions\/1415444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1415439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1415439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}